Three separate monologues zippered (see zipper poetry – and its rules). In Act 1, three characters (a taxi driver, the sister of a missing woman, an aging female detective) try to figure out why a young black man and young white woman have disappeared.  Was it murder -- and racially motivated?  Was it a political statement?  Or was it a well-planned romantic escapade?  Each character's surmise is the product of that character's expectations, these expectations being the product of personality, circumstance, and culture.  The end of the act is mysterious, but it points to a favored inference…

In Act 2, the characters of Act 1 are double cast, now the Taxi Driver is a Coast Guard Officer, the female Cop is now the missing black man and the lover of the missing woman, and the Sister now plays the missing sister and lover of the missing man of Act 1. Clearly, the couple is alive, at least for now, romantically well on the stolen sailboat. The story develops into an exploration of how (and if) love can survive the stormy seas of self-discovery, political iconoclasm, police pursuit, and the crashing waves of a north Pacific tempest.  As Sara says, "We are on a new Mayflower heading out to find a better place to live and love."  But do they -- can they -- find it?